Families that attended a "Dinosaur Day" in Somerset today (July 14) have made their feelings known after discovering that the event had a distinct lack of dinosaurs.

In fact, there was only one single dinosaur present at the event in Weston-super-Mare , and those that travelled to the family fun day have said they are "disgusted", Bristol Live reports.

The Funland Tropicana event was billed as “a day of everything Dinosaur related with lots to see and do” but parents were less than impressed and children could be seen in floods of tears when they turned up to find just one small T-rex.

The organisers have apologised, stating that part of the exhibition was unable to attend due to last-minute transport issues, but admitted that they may have "bigged-up" the event to be more than it was.

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“So many disappointed children with dino t-shirts on. Brought my dino-mad 5-year-old as a well done for his school report but you left him in tears he was so upset! I'll never be back to the Tropicana again!”

Wendie Smith said she had made a 50-mile round trip with her two grandsons, aged 3 and 7, to Funland Tropicana for Dinosaur Day.

“They were so excited, we had a sleepover and then went to see the dinosaurs.

“When I got there and there was just one, I thought we were too early and they hadn’t set the rest up yet.

“I’m quite cynical and I said to my partner, ‘I bet there’s just one, to get us here’.”

But Wendie said that when she found out there really would be no more dinosaurs she had to break the news to her grandsons who were “gutted”.

“The eldest one was absolutely gutted. I think it’s disgusting, I won’t be going back,” she said.

An employee at the park said that it was not a ploy, but an "unfortunate incident".